Top 7 African Dictators and Warlords

*This past Thursday’s groundbreaking judgment in the case of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor represents a milestone for both international justice and gender justice.

The former president of Liberia was convicted by the special court for sierra Leone of 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape and sexual slavery.

NewsOne decided to create a list of 7 African leaders who were war criminals.

1. Sekou Toure (Guinea) – For more than two and a half decades, Ahmed Sekou Toure ruled Guinea with an iron fist, which was not how he was originally perceived. His people welcomed him as the “Guinean Messiah” as he helped liberate the country from French rule. However, that freedom came with the price of oppression and intolerance of opposition by way of the many “death camps” he instilled in the country. Toure would die in America from cardiac arrest in 1984 while still in rule.

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